7/09/2008 @ 4:00PM

In Depth: Best Cities For Young Professionals

10. Austin, Texas

Even though Austin has earned a reputation as the second Silicon Valley, it doesn’t score tremendously well in our ratings of the 400 best big companies and 200 best small companies. It finishes 23rd by that count. However, its fifth place finish at attracting top grads suggests that change is on the way. The composite of lifestyle ratings, which shows loads of single, unmarried people making more money than the city’s cost of living requires of them, helps land it in the top 10.